Downsizers Team Chat - June 2025
Here is your Team chat room for June 2025. This is where you weigh in, post your goals and progress, discuss any issues or topics of interest, share ideas, support your teammates, receive help when you need it, and dream big. Try to post often, and help each other succeed! Bookmark this thread to make it easy to land here any time.
Fat2Fit has five great teams. The group and team leaders are as follows - contact them any time!
Our Moderators:
Ashley - @minstrelofsarcasm
Jessica - @jessicakrall8
Lauren- @lauren_989
Megan - @Megan_smartiepants1970
Our Team Captains:
Downsizers - @Megan_smartiepants1970 and [open]
Mission Slimpossible - @Katmary71 and @trooworld
Weight No More - @minstrelofsarcasm and @melaniedscott
WaistAways - @ashleycarole86 and @lauren_989
Shape Shifters - @jessicakrall8 and @frankwbrown
Our Team Motivators:
Mission Slimpossibles - @micaroo4
Weight No More - @BodyTalking and @daria0919
WaistAways - @MaddawgMadsen
Shape Shifters - @LaurieWrobo and @nancyinmiami
HOW IT ALL WORKS: The June challenge runs for four weeks, from June 1st - June 28th.
Everyone weighs in weekly on their chosen day right here in the team chat. At the end of each week, the tallies are done to determine the team and individuals with the most weight lost. The best losers are announced with full fanfare every Sunday. The team competition is all in good spirits - may the most losing win, and may everyone else get to work on next week!
We also celebrate those small, steady losses. If you lose, however small an amount, you are in the green! At the end of the month, we celebrate everyone who lost at least a bit every single week. You are heading steadily towards your goal even if you aren't at the top of the weight loss leader board. In March we are aiming for every team to hit 50% green every week - let's do this!
To make your weigh-in easy to find for your team Captains, please put it right at the top of a message, and use this format:Weigh In Day:PW (Previous Weight):CW (Current Weight):
If you miss two weigh-ins in a row without asking for a break, you will be dropped from the team, so be sure to inform your team captain if you are traveling, sick, or just need some time off. If you want a break, you can be excused for a week or two, or can be moved to the Support Team for as long as you need. You still participate in the discussions, you can weigh in if you want to, but it will not count in the weekly tally. Don't worry! You can always come back even if you get dropped.
Once you reach your goal weight, you join the Goal Zone. You continue to weigh in every week. If you have 2 weeks above your self-defined goal zone, you go back to the regular team to lose that amount before it builds up. You will have a chance to hone those maintenance skills and stick with your team.
In addition to your own team, there are weekly F2F Full Group CHALLENGES. You can do all or none - it's up to you. Participating adds a lot to your success, so we hope to see you there often! These can involve anything fitness, health, or nutrition - and they’ll get you moving, thinking, and learning about this journey. Check the Announcements section for full group challenges.
Let’s show our fellow challengers some F2F love Introduce or re-introduce yourselves right away, and let's get June on the road! 😎
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The June Week 1 Group Challenge is open and ready to begin tomorrow, Sunday, Jun 1st. Please join us for Warm Weather Workouts. Have a warm, safe and active week! Here's your link:
June Week 1 Group Challenge - Warm Weather Workouts — MyFitnessPal.com
See you in the chat thread!
Jessica
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Step Challenge - Goal 6000
5/25 sun 2642
5/26 mon 2015
5/27 tue 2894
5/28 wed 2611
5/29 thur 4750
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Welcome to June 2025 🌴
I am Lauren, co-captain of team WaistAways, but filling in for the wonderful @Megan_smartiepants1970 She has unfortunately been sick for the past month, but hopefully will be back here soon!
I am 39 years old and from North Carolina, USA. I have been on a weight loss journey most of my adult life. I have done a lot of the yo-yo thing, losing a lot of weight in 2012 and then gaining it back. Over the last few years, I seem to be gaining and losing the same 10-15 pounds.
May was a great month for me! I feel like I started staying within my calorie range goal and started my 5k training again! I am going to do a 5k on July 4th. My goal for May is to lose 5 pounds by tracking every day, getting 7,000 steps daily, and continuing my 5k training plan.
Some helpful information/tools:
Posting your daily updates
We know from experience that posting daily (or as often as you can!) makes a huge difference to your success. Use any format you like to let everyone know how you are doing on your daily goals and habits. You can report on food, exercise, water, sleep, or whatever you are tracking and trying to stick with. While you're there, talk about how you are, ask questions, and if you can answer someone else, please do! Congratulate others, commiserate, enjoy someone's rant, or go ahead and rant yourself. It all helps make the kind of community where we are in each others' heads when the hand is reaching for that off-plan snack, or the couch is feeling way too inviting...
Weighing in
Please try to weigh in on time (but don't sweat it if you have to use a different day sometimes)! Put your weigh in at the TOP of a message, so it is clear and easy to find. If you cannot post your weight for whatever reason, you can request a week off, or if you need a longer break, you can be moved to the "Support Team" where you still participate but your weigh-ins will not be part of the weekly tally. This is where members who are ill, on vacation, or just needing a break can hang out for as long as needed.
The F2F Habit Tracker
If you want a simple place to track your most important habits, give this a try
Step Challenge
Anyone is welcome to join our weekly step challenge! All you have to do is pledge a number of steps (set a goal) of how many steps you would like to get a day. Then at the end of the week, post your steps! You are challenging yourself and staying active is one way to hit your health goals! 🚶♀️
So everyone, tell us a bit about you, your goals, what steps you are going to work on. It's fun to know your name and where you live (if you're willing to share that), what brought you here, how your weight loss journey has been, and where you are headed now. We all have information to share, things we can learn, and lean on each other as a team for a successful month!
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Week 3 Step Challenge!
Top Steppers:
1st: @Mari33a 98,983 steps
2nd: @ashleyh2100 83,132 steps
3rd: @smila1202 32,161 steps
Steppers and their pledges:
@Mari33a 7/7 days
@ashleyh2100 4/7 days
@myndieet 3/7 days
Great job everyone!
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Good morning and happy June to everyone. Hope things dry out for you @lauren_989, hopefully all that rain you are getting will turn into great weather in the coming weeks.
And hello to you @Megan_smartiepants1970! I hope all is well and you are on the mend. We all miss you.
now here are my numbers:Member: rwillems
Weigh-in Day: Sunday
PW: 268.0 lbs.
CW: 269.8 lbs.
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cormierannie
weigh in day sunday
pw: 132 pounds
cw: 132 pounds
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This was a good weekend for exercise and naps haha. I did get some cleaning done too. Now getting ready for a full work week!
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Step Challenge - Goal 12,000
5/25: 13,118
5/26: 12,418
5/27: 12,736
5/28: 12,596
5/29: 23,943 (Not a typo! 😆 I was on a work trip and got tons of steps that day)
5/30: 11,514
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@lauren_989
Sorry to be so discombobulated at the end of the month! A totally disjointed week for me last week - and I won’t have access to a scale next week, so please excuse me!
PW: 198.3
CW: 198.5
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Last call for steps from the last week of May! 😊
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I had a good day today! Work was busy but it went by fast. Went to body pump class tonight but ate some snacks at work 🫤 Tomorrow is my weigh in day and feel like I will be up. I know I don't usually post my weights here, but it won't affect this team at least!
Speaking of which, last month was a little rough for a lot of us. Any concerns? Specific troubles? Anything we can do to support each other?
I need someone to follow me around and knock the sweets out of my hand 😂
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